Call For Papers
Important Dates -
Submission of Papers: | August 08, 2014, 18:00 UTC |
Notification of Acceptance: | September 15, 2014 |
Camera-ready Version of Papers for Pre-proceedings: | October 1st, 2014 |
BalkanCryptSec 2014 | October 16-17, 2014 |
General Information
The first edition of the annual International Conference on Cryptography and Information security -BalkanCryptSec 2014- will take place in Istanbul from 16 October to 17 October 2014 and will be organized by the Embedded System Design Laboratory at Istanbul Technical University. We are seeking contributions to theoretical and applied aspects of security and cryptography.
BalkanCryptSec 2014 is held in co-operation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) which is the leading professional organization for cryptographic research.
Instructions for Authors
The submissions must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations or obvious references. The length of the submission must be at most 12 pages, excluding references and appendices, in a single column format, in 11pt fonts and with reasonable margins.
Authors are encouraged to prepare the submission using LaTeX according to the instructions listed on here. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers. Submitted papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically. The web link to the submission server will be published on the conference website.
The submission should begin with a title and a short abstract. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at the level understandable for a non-expert reader. The reviewers are not required to read appendices, the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has submitted/is planning to submit before the author notification deadline to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The proceedings will be published after the conference, allowing to use the community feedback received during the conference for the final versions of the papers.
Papers must be submitted only electronically. The electronic submission site is available at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=balkancryptsec2014
Conference Proceedings
It is envisaged to publish revised selected papers as a post-proceedings in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (final approval pending). Pre-proceedings will be available at the conference and post-proceedings will be published in LNCS series after the conference.
Program Co-Chairs | |
Berna Ors | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Bart Preneel | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Local Orginizing Commitee | |
Berna Ors | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Mehmet Akif Ozkan | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Ramazan Yeniceri | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Emre Goncu | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Ahmet Cagri Bagbaba | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Buse Ustaoglu | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Busra Tas | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Emrah Abtioglu | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Latif Akcay | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Steering Commitee | |
Sedat Akleylek | Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey |
Tsonka Baicheva | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia |
Lejla Batina | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
Vesna Dimitrova | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia |
Zoran Djuric | University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bogdan Groza | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
Sokratis Katsikas | University of Piraeus, Greece |
Miodrag Mihaljevic | Serbian Academy of Sciences, Serbia |
Svetla Nikova | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Berna Ors | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania |
Tolga Yalcin | UIST "St Paul the Apostle", Macedonia |
Program Commitee | |
Sedat Akleylek | Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey |
Elena Andreeva | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Elli Androulaki | IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland |
Tsonka Baicheva | Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia |
Lejla Batina | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
Ioana Boureanu | Akamai Technologies Limited, United Kingdom |
Claude Carlet | University of Paris 8 and LAGA, France |
Jean-Sebastien Coron | Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Reza Curtmola | New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA |
Ricardo Dahab | University of Campinas, Brazil |
Paolo D'Arco | University di Salerno, Italy |
Vesna Dimitrova | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje |
Zoran Djuric | University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Christophe Doche | Macquarie University, Australia |
Stefan Dziembowski | University of Warsaw, Poland |
Gerhard Frey | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Dieter Gollmann | Hamburg University of Technology, Germany |
Bogdan Groza | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
Tim Güneysu | Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
Sokratis Katsikas | University of Piraeus, Greece |
Aggelos Kiayias | University of Connecticut, USA |
Lars R. Knudsen | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
David Lubicz | Université Rennes, France |
Stephen Mclaughlin | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Nasir Memon | Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA |
Miodrag Mihaljevic | Serbian Academy of Sciences, Serbia |
Svetla Nikova | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Claudio Orlandi | Aarhus University, Denmark |
Berna Ors | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Elisabeth Oswald | University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
Charalampos Papamanthou | University of Maryland, USA |
Bart Preneel | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Christian Rechberger | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
Kui Ren | State University of New York, USA |
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Erkay Savas | Sabanci University, Turkey |
Zulfukar Saygı | TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey |
Michael Scott | Dublin City University, Ireland |
Ali Aydın Selçuk | TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey |
Dimitris. E. Simos | SBA Research, Austria |
Johannes Skaar | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
Ercan Solak | Işık University, Turkey |
Berk Sunar | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
François-Xavier Standaert | UC Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania |
Nikos Triandopoulos | Boston University |
Serge Vaudenay | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
Vesselin Velichkov | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Frederik Vercauteren | KU Leuven, Belgium |
Lawrence C. Washington | University of Maryland, USA |
Tolga Yalcin | UIST "St Paul the Apostle", Macedonia |